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Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Deputy Boyd Barrett will be happy to hear I yearn for a world where every enterprise was a social enterprise but we would not get very far with that. I mean that sincerely. I have been fortunate, since I became a Deputy, to be a voluntary board director of a social enterprise and it has educated me greatly on the not-for-profit model. However, we live in a world where private enterprise is...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I have some sympathy for Deputy Boyd Barrett's point, and he and I sat on the Committee on Budgetary Oversight together over two Dáil terms. I know the Minister is aware of the following point but I want to throw it into the debate. I am beginning to hear advertisements on the radio again for financial institutions offering incentives for people to cash in part of their houses and take...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: What about the Road Runner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I thank Ms Hill and Mr. Hamilton; it is good to see them. I thank the Chair for facilitating me. I had a problem accessing Teams this morning, unusually, so I missed my turn. I will ask Ms Hill to tell us a little about the use of crack cocaine, for the record of the Oireachtas committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: What makes it such a game-changer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: That is why the Chair and I have prioritised this meeting. It is unusual for a drugs task force to come before the Joint Committee on Health. Will Ms Hill tell us a little about debt, how it accumulates and the consequent impacts of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Perhaps Ms Hill could share the details of one or two cases, as examples.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Can Ms Hill tell us anything about the narrative behind that and how it developed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Was the debt was incurred by a family member through the purchase of crack cocaine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: How are those families targeted?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategies to encourage and support students of DEIS schools to access third-level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58627/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mental health supports and strategies in place to support students in further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58628/21]

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: I will be very brief. I found the conversation and the reading material fascinating. I have what I hope will be considered a constructive observation to make on what Mr. Ryan said. His paper was so full of acronyms that I kept getting lost in it. We all do that when we are in the system. I got the thrust of what he was saying. As someone who had a professional connection with mental...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: My question is on how they become part of the multidisciplinary teams.

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: That is useful in that they do not just walk into it. There is an accredited process and avenue.

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: If I am right, the impetus is from the individual who expresses an interest. The HSE then responds to that. Probably not in all cases, but in some cases it may have an accredited course to bed in the structures and how that peer support role can be fulfilled to the best of the individual's ability.

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: I like that idea of incorporation and multidisciplinary teams. I do not want to place a burden on Mr. Ryan so rather than asking him to make further submissions, I will ask him the following question. The public would be interested in the process by which those people are selected. Is it based on the expertise of the medics involved - in other words, they work with a patient and they...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: That is terrific.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: It was a Fianna Fáil commitment in that regard. I have heard the Deputy speak passionately about this and I acknowledge that he supports such action. There are a few amendments I would like considered as well but the bottom line is that an unsuccessful, disastrous policy is being brought to an end by a Fianna Fáil Minister with responsibility for housing. The House should at...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

John Lahart: The problem that confronts me here is to combine my loyalty, affection and respect for the Minister as a colleague with the criticism which he knows I have of the previous process. One of the previous speakers suggested this was a U-turn in Government policy. As a Fianna Fáil Deputy, I can say this is not a U-turn in Government policy. This is Fianna Fáil putting its stamp on...